So that spooky time of the year is upon us and I just want to be sure everyone knows:
I will never post a screamer video on my blog.
I have pretty bad anxiety and I know a lot of my followers do too so I’m making this post just so everyone knows. My blog will be jumpscare/screamer video free for all of the spooky month ahead of us. 🙂
This is actually a really good interview with Theron regarding Furiosa (I don’t normally turn to EW for in-depth discussion of characterisation – but there you go!)
“She’s so evolved as a character with few words. That must have been a challenge. The scene when you are out in the middle of the desert, filled with despair, and you drop to your knees, was that particularly difficult?
I was really happy for that moment. It wasn’t in the script. It was a quick idea that I had and he liked it, and I trusted him that he would shoot it in a way that didn’t feel overly dramatic. I have moments, because I know how that scene came about, where I have to really breathe when I watch that. … He made it work way more than I think I would have made it work on my own. I’m really happy that that happened.”
Can I just say, as great as Venom and Eddie’s relationship was, I appreciated Dan and Anne’s. Dan didn’t fall into the jealous new boyfriend category. Not once did he mistrust Anne about Eddie, showing he was totally comfortable in that relationship and trusted her totally, he was so nice to Eddie instead of telling him to stay away from Anne. It was a healthy relationship dynamic (despite Anne’s possible remaining feelings at the end) and I appreciated it and Dan as a character
Update: I forgot to add, Dan had his priorities right like when he told Anne they needed to talk about what was going on and she said there was nothing going on with her and Eddie and Dan was like ‘no we need to talk about the weird parasite thing that’s unknown to medical science obviously’ and I appreciate that he was focused on the right thing
I think part of what made the Venom movie so palatable to me was the whole situation with Dan and how it was handled as if everyone involved was a Decent Adult Person instead of the heteronormative caricatures we’ve come to expect. Just by being written the way he is, Dan makes my queer ass feel so much safer in indulging in this fandom, and I love him for that!!!
I was prepared for a boatload of second hand embarrassment at the restaurant scene but it was wonderfully resolved when Dan was like “Yes this is my girlfriend’s ex behaving inappropriately in a restaurant but also he’s obviously visibly unwell and I’m a doctor so can we all please calm the fuck down so I can get him to a hospital.”